"Las Vegas Housing Prices Reached the Highest Level in the Last 11 Years" - DigitalJournel.com"Real estate experts have marked a significant change in the economy and housing prices in Las Vegas during the last couple of months. 2018 has brought many changes to the Las Vegas real estate market, with prices rising rapidly and the number of available properties dropping just as quickly. However, it is certain that the city of Las Vegas is booming once again after the massive market crash in 2008. According to Nevada Current and the statistics from August 2018, the average price of a single-family home in the area of Southern Nevada equaled to $295,000. This shows how the prices have increased significantly since 2012 when the same properties were available for $118,000. However, even today’s average is still below the all-time high, which was $315,000, back in June 2006."

"Home of the Week: Sneak peek of Montford Holiday Tour of Homes" - Citizen-Times.com"When Chicago weather became too much for Pat and Ron Hart, they began a down South search that landed them in Asheville. A retired registered nurse, Pat moved to the area three years ago while Ron, a real estate agent, followed her six months later after retiring and selling their home in Illinois. 'We decided to move south due to a combination of Southern climate, the mountains, the four seasons and because we would be off the hurricane beaten path,” Ron said. “We just felt the dual wrath of hurricanes Michael and Florence.' Instead of purchasing a home right away, the couple took the safe route and rented until they gained their bearings..."

"NYC Real Estate Brokers & Landlords Are Salivating Over Amazon Invasion" - Gothamist.com"With New York City still deep in the midst of an affordability crisis—a Furman Center report released earlier this year showed that the city's population continues to outpace housing supply, and median rents have increased by around $300/month since 2000, while renters' salaries have only increased by $145—Amazon is promising to bring 25,000 to 40,000 jobs to Queens with an average salary of $150,000..."

"Savannah increases number of properties targeted with blight tax" - SavannahNow.com"The city more than doubled the number of properties targeted with a blight tax this year in a continued attempt to reduce the amount of unsafe and unsightly structures throughout Savannah’s neighborhoods. The property tax bills were increased by seven times the normal amount for 84 properties in 2018, following the implementation last year of the Community Redevelopment Tax Incentive ordinance..."

Real Estate Lead Generation Companies Adapt To 2018

Real estate lead generation companies are fighting hard to adapt to the changing pace of digital lead gen (offrs built it 5 years ago). What does offrs do?

How Real Estate Lead Generation Companies Work

While there are a number of methodologies for generating listing leads, it really helps to start at the root and ask "What is a lead?" This is because not all companies see leads the same way, and therefor, they'll gather and deliver those leads to you based on their understanding of your needs. So, it's a great question to ask when looking around for a lead generation solution provider! Not all chocolate's the same and not all cars are the same. So when someone presents a lead generation lineup, it'll be good to go in with some insight on what would make the ultimate real estate lead generator.

This is a good practice for you in general as it may help you and your business to shift your thinking from "I'm looking for homeowners that want to list" to "I'm looking for homeowners in my farm that are most likely going to list and..." It's about getting specific with more identifiers while changing the game to where you're not waiting on homeowners to tell you where on the listing readiness timeline they are, but instead, tracking how ready they likely are based on actions they've taken. This is the value of quality lead generation (we'll get into that later). First, let's explore granularity of leads...

A Few Of The Many Homeowner Lead Types

Before we go into this list of types of real estate agent leads, it's important to know that this is by no means a comprehensive list. It's just intended to show the diversity of lead types. You may find yourself saying "Well, these three lead types are the only ones that matter" but the three will jumble depending on who you ask. You'll also notice that many of them seem to be directly-related to or fit within the category of another, but the description should help separate the value of the various lead types. More on that later. Let's explore the various homeowner lead types.

Cold - These fall in the category of homeowners *capable* of being a listing client, but who may or may not be open to your brand

Warm - These are homeowners that have demonstrated a willingness to view or hear your brand pitch

Hot - These are homeowners that have demonstrated significant emotional interest in your brand's pitch

Neighbor - A specific subset of homeowner lead type that allows your messaging to hone in on local service and values

Friend - A homeowner that will listen to your brand pitch

Family - A homeowner that will most likely list with you (assuming a familial connection)

Past Client - Someone that will possibly list with you again (assuming positive results and continued communication)

Referral - Someone that will possibly listen to your brand pitch

Single Action - A homeowner that has taken a single action that leans them in the offrs algorithm towards the likelihood of listing

Stacked Actions - A homeowner that has taken several steps, leaning them in the offrs algorithm towards the likelihood of listing

Passive Inquiry - A homeowner that has made public inquiry or statements demonstrating a lean towards listing

Active Inquiry - A homeowner that has directly and publicly inquired about listing services

Okay, so as we mentioned, the lead types above are by no means complete and many of them could be considered descriptors of other lead types (you could have a neighbor that's taken certain tracked actions but is also someone you've spoken with and discussed signing, so therefore a hot lead, etc.). But barring these legitimate overlaps, your farm's homeowner residents should fall within one or more of these categories. And that's the key takeaway here... all homeowners are real estate leads, it's only a matter of when they're ready to get down to listing. And more specifically... you knowing when that is.

Lead Conversion Methodologies Matter

This last point is important to consider when looking at real estate lead generation companies. We've listed out above the many, many lead types and there's plenty more that offrs tracks, but if a lead generation service provider only views seller leads in a black & white fashion (Lead = YES or NO), then you'll never know how best to approach your new lead. Worse yet, the lead generation provider wouldn't really know when or how to present your new lead to you! =\ How could they? If they're only tracking whether or not someone is a "Lead" and can't focus in on convertibility, then how would they know which ones YOU should focus in on?

That's why lead conversion methodologies matter, because if a lead generation service doesn't know that seller leads have to be converted, then not only are they just giving you a list of names without a score or label, they're likely giving it to you too late. Think of it this way... if all leads are the same, then which are the hot ones? And if you can't point out 10 hot leads on a list of 2,500 names, then you've got a 1 in 250 chance that you're NOT wasting your time with other lead types while your hot leads cool down or go elsewhere.

All The Things That Go Into Lead Generation

There are a lot of factors that go into real estate lead generation services and building a prediction model that can tell you which homeowners are likely looking at listing their home in the next 6-12 months (let alone doing so with a 70% national average accuracy)! Info is like saying "That is a rocket" where data is like saying "The rocket launched at 3:15 pm EST" and predictive analytics is like saying "The rocket launched at 3:15 pm EST and, based on the multiple check-in stages, it has a 70% chance of being at this very point in space/time" (quite a difference)!

If you're spending your days plotting through spreadsheets that are full of names and numbers, it might be time to get up to speed and see what Artificial Intelligence can do for your real estate business. It's not the future, it's right now and it's happening all over the nation thanks to SMB solutions like offrs. Real estate predictive analytics and homeowner listing predictions for use as key lead generation solutions is all happening right now (and not just for enterprise brokerages). Set up a demo with offrs now and learn what predictive analytics can do for you. Learn more about offrs in the industry.

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